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Quotes About Conviction

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with maybe, should I, or even perhaps. I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate YES!
~ Oprah Winfrey
There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bunlara kaç kiÅŸi inan?yor? dedi yorgun, b?kk?n bir havayla. Biraz ilgi gören ve bundan ba?? dönen h?rsl? her vaiz, dinin elden gittiÄŸini söylemeye baÅŸlar. En saÄŸlam ekmek kap?s? budur.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Sewaktu muda, Ka sangat meyakini bahwa tidak ada yang lebih terhormat selain mati akibat alasan politik intelektual, atau untuk membela apa yang telah ditulisnya.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bu otobüsler insan? istediÄŸi yere en sonunda götürür. Otobüslere inan?yorum. MeleÄŸe de bazan, hay?r her zaman inan?yorum, evet her zaman, hay?r, bazan.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Çok doÄŸru," dedi Süleyman. Bana kal?rsa bana hak verdiÄŸi için deÄŸil, Hazreti Peygamber'li, Kuran-? Kerim'li bir lafa asla kar?? ç?kamad??? için
~ Orhan Pamuk
He had no faith in money, but he'd nervously squirrel it away. Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Oysa bütün katiller, san?ld???n?n aksine, inançs?zlardan deÄŸil, fazla inananlardan ç?kar.
~ Orhan Pamuk
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
~ Orison Swett Marden
We were made to dominate our environment. It was not intended that we should be buffeted about by accident or chance. Our greatest enemies live in our own brains, in our imaginations, in our wrong ideas of life. We were intended to be conquerors instead of slaves and there is no slavery like the slavery to a conviction or a superstition that makes us cowards.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
~ Orson Scott Card
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
~ Orson Scott Card
Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.
~ Orson Scott Card
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
~ Orson Scott Card
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
~ Orson Scott Card
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
~ Orson Scott Card
No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)
~ Orson Scott Card
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me.
~ Orson Scott Card
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
~ Orson Scott Card
I thought speakers didn't believe in sin, said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.
~ Orson Scott Card
He did what he thought was right
~ Orson Scott Card
Anything that is possible to be believed is an image of truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.
~ Orson Scott Card